10 Nov 2005
| by David Quainton
The Red Consultancy is opening an office in San Francisco following its appointment as the global...The operation, sharing premises with sister Incepta agency Citigate Cunningham, will be led by newly appointed senior V-P and general manager Alice Chan. She joins from Fleishman-Hillard, where she was senior V-P and partner of its West Coast operation. Red's San Francisco team will focus on technology ...
04 Nov 2005
Leica, the German camera and optical products manufacturer, has picked TBWA\Chiat\Day San Francisco...The appointment is the precursor to a print campaign promoting Leica's
consumer camera and sport optics business, which is expected to break in
Europe, the US and Asia in April next year. Michael Allen, the president of the San Francisco agency, said: "Leica
has very high ambitions for the brand ...
30 Sep 2005
Al Kelly, the group creative director of Goodby Silverstein & Partners, is leaving the agency to join StrawberryFrog in Amsterdam.
26 Aug 2005
Office Depot has put its $95 million advertising account up for review.
29 Jul 2005
Subway Restaurants has fired Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco from its $300 million
29 Jul 2005
The agency won a pitch against three WPP Group agencies: Young & Rubicam
and Grey Worldwide (both in San Francisco) and Ogilvy & Mather (Culver
City, California). DDB Worldwide in Los Angeles, McCann Erickson in San Francisco and the
incumbent, RPA in Santa Monica, were all knocked out in the first round ...
08 Jul 2005
The incumbent, TBWA\Chiat\Day San Francisco, will be asked to join an as yet undisclosed shortlist to pitch. No value has yet been placed on the account, but Ask Jeeves spent $7 million in the first three months of 2005 on its first TV advertising since 2001, which highlighted its recent redesign ...
24 Jun 2005
The telecoms companies Sprint and Nextel Communications have chosen TBWA\Chiat\Day to handle the launch campaign for their forthcoming merger.
17 Jun 2005
The US clothes retailer Old Navy, which is owned by The Gap, has responded to declining sales by ditching Deutsch Los Angeles as its agency of record.
03 Jun 2005
's San Francisco office....PHD San Francisco originally held media planning and print buying on the account, while TV buying was controlled by the independent agency Rubin Postner Associates.
The entire account was handed to PHD following a three-way pitch between PHD, Havas' Media Planning Group in New York ...